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Issues

We have compiled over 1,000 actions that you can take today for a better tomorrow across 96 of the toughest issues and counting from affordable housing to zero waste, together for the first time.

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Sorted by Topic

Sorted by Problem

Affordable housing Air quality Animal protection Art education and creativity Artificial intelligence and job skills B corps, LTSE, and consumer safety Balanced budget Bee and pollinator defense Bike accessibility Bilingual education Biodiversity Campaign finance and ethics reform City parks and urban trees Coastal flood prevention Composting Cost of university Criminal justice reform Defense against Lyme and malaria Defense of the Constitution Disaster preparedness Diverse political candidates Ergonomics and employee safety Equal pay and equal rights Equality for sexual orientation End-of-life estate planning Fan-owned sports teams Farm animal welfare Fashion diversity Financial literacy Food labeling and testing Food policy Food security Four day work week Free admission to museums Freedom to play Gender respect Gun safety reform Holistic history Immigrant integration Impartial elections Inclusive teaching Intergovernmental organizations K-12 school performance Living without fear Local manufacturing jobs Marijuana legalization Mars colonization Martial arts and self-defense Mass transit Media literacy Medication effectiveness Mental health Metric system adoption Middle income housing National defense National parks Nuclear weapons peace treaties Organ transplant reform Pain relief without addiction Pandemic recovery Parental and caregiver leave Patient safety Personal accountability Pet adoption Planetary defense Police accountability Preschool and child care Public libraries Public sports facilities and fields Recess and playgrounds Renewable energy Right to privacy Right to repair Right to vote Safe driving Safe families and relationships Self-determination and statehood Slavery abolition Sleep quality STEM representation Sustainable agriculture Sustainable apparel Sustainable seafood Trails and sidewalks Tribal health and rural economies Universal broadband Universal design Universal healthcare Vegetarian and sustainable diets Veteran adjustment to civilian life Water conservation Water quality Water reclamation Watershed protection Wildfire prevention Zero waste

Air pollution Algal bloom and red tide Animal cruelty Archaic measurement systems Antibiotic resistance Back pain and workplace injuries Book banning Broken promises Bullying Colony collapse disorder (CCD) Corporate accountability Day Zero water scarcity Declining museum attendance Digital divide Disinformation and conspiracies Domestic violence and child abuse Drought and water shortage Drunk and impaired driving Early education expenses Election denial Electronic waste (e-waste) Exploited landscapes Factory closures and trade deficit Factory farms Fashion uniformity Fast fashion and textile waste Food waste Fossil fuel dependence Government corruption Government overreach Gun violence Hate crimes and xenophobia Helicopter and over-parenting Historical ignorance Housing crisis Housing shortage Human trafficking Hunger Immigration backlog Inaccessibility Inadequate physical education Inflation and federal debt Inflexible work schedules Insect-borne diseases International peacekeeping Lack of emergency preparation Lack of empathy Lack of parents on school board Lack of transparency in food safety Lack of women in STEM Lethargy LGBTQ+ persecution Limited support for families Long COVID and prolonged grief Loss of divergent thinking Mass incarceration Medical debt Medical errors Mental illness and suicide Military waste Money mismanagement Noise and light pollution Nuclear war threat and arms race Obesity Opioid epidemic Organ donation burdens Overfishing Physical inactivity Plastic pollution Police militarization Poor education Privatization of youth sports PTSD and veteran trauma Puppy mills and unethical shelters Risk of asteroid impacts Risk of Constitutional convention Rural decline and indigenous inequity Sea level rise Secondhand smoke Sexism Sexual harassment Singularity and unknown futures Soil erosion and famine Space exploration monopoly Stadium subsidies Student debt Survivor burdens of funerals Taxation without representation Traffic Underrepresentation Unsustainable diet Urban heat islands Voter intimidation Water contamination Wildlife extinction Wildfires

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Challenges

There are also challenges we all have to overcome when trying to tackle any issue bigger than any single individual. Some we can control, while others embody the struggle:

Sorted by Control	Sorted by Struggle
Awareness Common ground Optimism and pragmatism Responsibility and choice Today	Anxiety Division Pessimism, cynicism, and apathy Results Tomorrow